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Weblog:   Linux Desktop - An Analyst's Nightmare
Subject:   Countering bias with bias?
Date:   2005-09-19 16:56:20
From:   tadelste
Response to: Countering bias with bias?

If you couldn't use NLD as your primary desktop, then you can't do what a patient recovering from neorologial surgery did. In fact, that person not only found it as an aid to recovery, but also was offered a system analyst position at a major hospital. Prior to that, the same person could not master OS X or Windows XP before the illness.


Thanks for grain of sand in an endless desert of remarks from trolls on the Internet.
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  • Countering bias with bias?
    2005-09-19 19:34:15  kollivier [View]

    Wow. Are you serious? :) So my 'practical' concerns and dissatisfactions with using NDL are nothing because some person, somewhere, who had some sort of problem, can use NDL but couldn't use Mac OS X or Win?

    Frankly, you're not only insulting me, you're insulting this person by suggesting that this person was somehow a special case. (i.e. that they are less smart than others, somehow disadvantaged, etc.) Whatever condition the person may have had, s/he must have been in excellent control of their mental facilities and quite intelligent if s/he was offered a systems analyst position. So I don't see the relevance of the surgery part.

    Of course, this is all speculation anyways because I don't know who you're talking about or what the circumstances were, nor why the person could not "master" OS X or Windows XP. So this anecdote does not in any real way prove the 'superiority' of NDL, and I don't even see what it intends to prove, except perhaps how you feel.

    If you think you can sell managers and enterprises with a moving anecdote, "it works for me" reasoning, and a focus on attacking the messenger whenever criticism is raised, well, good luck with that.
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